Maui Workshop Presentations
May 19-20, 2012
Optional Tour May 21, 2012
The Hawai‘i Public Seed Initiative held the third of its five-island, two-day workshops at Noho‘ana Farm in Waikapu, the Kupa‘a farm in Kula, and offered an optional tour to The Maui Farm in Makawao. A delicious local farm lunch was catered by chef Hiram Peri from Honu cuisine. This workshop was designed to create a practical working knowledge of seed growing, botany and biology, selection, harvesting, cleaning, and saving of various types of seed.
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Click here to view the photo gallery and slideshow of the Maui 2012 workshop.
Click here to download the Variety Trial Log Sheet.
The Hawai‘i Public Seed Initiative by Nancy Redfeather, Coordinator HPSI
• Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?
• Public Seed Commons: A Brief History of the Seed Industry
History of Seed Production and Crop Breeding in Hawai‘i by Hector Valenzuela
• Brief Summary of Statewide Seed Assesment from the 2010 Seed Symposium
Seed Basics: Botany and Biology by Russell Nagata
• Monocot and Dicot Plant Differences
• Open-Pollinated/Hybrid/Heirloom
• Inbreeding/outbreeding: Know Your Crops Mating preferences.
• Selfing/Cross Pollination Pollen Transfer (wind, insect, human)
• Reproductive Cycles: Annuals, Biennials, Perennials
• Different Strategies – population numbers, isolation distances, roughing and selection to maintain seed purity
Growing Tomato for Seed in the Garden by Glenn Teves
Overview of what conventional tomato breeders might consider:
• Selecting for cultivars with characteristics that address the special needs of Island propagation
Growing Kalo and Farm Tour with Talk Story by Glenn Teves
Building Your Seed Network by Paul Massey
Growing Requirements for Producing Lettuce for Seed by Russell Nagata
• Cleaning Techniques for Dry Seeded Crops
• Pollination, Isolation, Optimum Number of Plants
• Seed Purity, Improving Lettuce Varieties, Roguing and Selection
• Seed Storage, Viability Testing
For information about The Maui Farm, go to www.themauifarm.org.
Mahalo to our Presenters!
- Hector Valenzuela, Ph.D., CTAHR Extension – Vegetable specialist.
- Russell Nagata, Ph.D., CTAHR County of Hawai‘i Extension Administrator- Lettuce propagation and seed production specialist.
- Glenn Teves, CTAHR Moloka‘i Extension Office – Taro And Tomato Propagation Specialist.
- Paul Massey – President/Director, Regenerations Botanical Garden, Kaua‘i. Manages
- The Kaua‘i Community Seed Bank.
- Nikki Duncan – Small Grain Production.
- Hōkūao Pellegrino – Cultural Resource Specialist & Kalo Farmer
- Gerry Ross – Co-Owner Of Kupa’a Farms
- Nancy Redfeather – Program Director – Hawai‘i Public Seed Initiative & Program Director Of The Hawai‘i Island School Garden Network & Co-Owner Of Kawanui Farm on Hawai‘i Island.